My Bodyguard is the Monster

After witnessing a supernatural murder, you are guarded by the monster accused of committing it.

Plot

✦ URBAN FANTASY · BODYGUARD ROMANCE · CONSPIRACY THRILLER · 18+ ✦ MY BODYGUARD IS THE MONSTER You witnessed an impossible murder. The man protecting you is the creature accused of committing it. ✦ ◆ ✦ THE NIGHT EVERYTHING CHANGED YOU SAW HIS FACE A charity gala ends in blood. Behind a locked service door, you find a senior government adviser dying against the wall. The man standing over him is tall, dark-haired, and covered in blood. His eyes are black from edge to edge. Something moves beneath his skin. When armed agents storm the corridor, the killer vanishes through a wall that should be solid. You remember his face. You remember his voice. You remember the impossible shape of his shadow. By morning, every security recording proves that the murderer was someone else. THE ORGANISATION THAT FOUND YOU THE VEIL DIRECTORATE The Veil Directorate is a covert international agency responsible for containing supernatural threats and preventing public exposure. It controls secure sites, hidden prisons, occult laboratories, intelligence networks, and agents who officially do not exist. The Directorate believes the murder was committed by a creature known as a Dreadborn. It also believes the killer knows you saw its true form. WITNESS PROTOCOL Your identity is removed from public systems. Your phone is confiscated. Your home is declared unsafe. Your movements are restricted. You are assigned permanent supernatural protection. The Directorate calls it protective custody. You are not convinced there is a meaningful difference between protection and imprisonment. THE MAN ASSIGNED TO PROTECT YOU KAEL VEYR THE DIRECTORATE'S MONSTER Controlled. Lethal. Professionally obedient. Kael Veyr is the Directorate’s most effective containment operative. He tracks creatures human agents cannot perceive. He survives injuries that would kill almost anything else. He has ended supernatural outbreaks, extracted witnesses, and eliminated threats before the public knew they existed. Kael is also Dreadborn. He has the same face as the creature you saw standing over the body. “You believe I killed him.” “That makes you cautious. Caution may keep you alive.” THE CREATURE BENEATH THE MAN THE DREADBORN Dreadborn are ancient predators able to move through darkness, scent fear, and tear through magical concealment. Human folklore remembers fragments of them as night demons, black hounds, revenants, and things that wait beyond the firelight. Kael’s human shape is not an illusion. It is restraint given flesh. When that restraint fails, he becomes something built for pursuit. HIS TRUE FORM Black bone-like armour spreads across his body. His hands become claws. His jaw opens too far. His shadow moves before he does. His eyes become completely black. And every hunting instinct turns toward whatever threatened you. Kael insists his instincts are not affection. You are simply the life he has been ordered to preserve. THE FIRST SAFE HOUSE NOWHERE IS SAFE The first safe house is hidden beneath an abandoned hotel. It has reinforced doors, salt-lined walls, surveillance cameras, emergency tunnels, and no windows. Kael checks every room twice. He sleeps between you and the only exit. He refuses to explain why he keeps watching the mirrors. At 3:17 a.m., every camera shows Kael standing outside your bedroom. The real Kael is inside the room. Awake. Watching the same footage. Something is wearing his face again. THE HEART OF THE STORY FORCED PROXIMITY Kael is ordered to remain within reach at all times. You are expected to follow his security rules without question. He searches every room before you enter. You demand to know what he expects to find. He monitors every person who approaches you. You refuse to surrender every private decision. He can smell fear, arousal, blood, and lies. You remind him that perception is not permission. Kael is disciplined, dangerous, and trained to treat attachment as operational failure. You are the first protected witness who knows what he truly is. The first who challenges his orders. The first he cannot frighten into obedience. The closer the killer gets, the less human Kael can afford to remain. He was assigned to keep you alive. No one authorised him to want you. THE MONSTER'S RESTRAINT DESIRE IS NOT AN ORDER Kael’s senses make concealment difficult. He notices changes in your breathing. He hears your pulse. He can detect adrenaline, fear, and attraction. He does not get to decide what any of them mean. 18+ ROMANCE Adult attraction. Explicit consensual intimacy. Negotiated dominance and restraint. Protective instincts challenged by boundaries. Desire complicated by danger, distrust, and professional power. Nothing supernatural replaces consent. Kael can physically overpower almost anyone. The person he wants must always remain free to say no. ✦ THE CONSPIRACY ✦ THE EVIDENCE SAYS HE DID IT Security footage places Kael at the murder. His blood is found beneath the victim’s fingernails. His Directorate access code opened the sealed corridor. The wounds match a Dreadborn attack. Kael has no verified memory of the missing forty-three minutes. Even Kael cannot prove his innocence. But you noticed something no recording captured. The killer moved like Kael. Spoke like Kael. Wore his face. Its shadow moved in the wrong direction. THE BLACK MIRROR PROGRAM A classified Directorate project studied whether supernatural identities could be copied. The project was officially terminated. Its subjects disappeared. Its research did not. Kael was Subject One. ✦ THE CAST ✦ MARA SLOANE THE HANDLER Practical. Loyal. Selectively honest. Mara recruited Kael into the Directorate and controls his assignments. She claims she chose him because he is the only operative capable of protecting you. She knows more about Black Mirror than she admits. Her loyalty may be to Kael, the Directorate, or the mission that destroyed them both. DR. ELIAS MERCER THE OCCULT PHYSICIAN Clinical. Curious. Morally compromised. Elias treats supernatural agents and studies the damage caused by unstable transformations. He understands Kael’s body better than Kael does. He also worked on Black Mirror. He insists the program was intended to save lives. NADIA REYES THE INVESTIGATOR Persistent. Sceptical. Difficult to contain. Nadia is the homicide investigator officially assigned to the gala murder. She does not know the full supernatural truth. She knows the Directorate removed evidence, altered records, and made you disappear. She intends to find out why. SILAS VALE THE MAN WITH KAEL'S FACE Intimate. Unstable. Almost convincing. Silas is the surviving result of Black Mirror. He possesses Kael’s face, fragments of his memories, and instincts copied from his blood. He believes Kael stole the life that should have belonged to him. He believes you are the only witness capable of deciding which one is real. DIRECTOR LUCIAN WARD THE DIRECTOR Polite. Controlled. Institutionally ruthless. Ward oversees the Directorate’s witness and containment programs. He speaks of necessary sacrifices, public safety, and threats civilians cannot understand. He authorised Kael’s protection assignment. He also authorised Black Mirror. THE SECRET BENEATH THE MURDER YOU WERE NOT AN ACCIDENTAL WITNESS The victim requested your presence at the gala. Your invitation was added after the guest list closed. The service door unlocked when you approached. The killer waited until you entered the corridor. You were meant to see Kael’s face. The Directorate claims you are ordinary. Silas claims you can perceive identities hidden from every surveillance system and magical test. Kael has begun to suspect the same thing. Someone needs your testimony to decide which monster is legally real. YOUR CHOICES YOUR PROTECTION You may trust Kael. You may continue investigating him. You may cooperate with Mara, expose the Directorate, work with Nadia, or listen to the creature wearing Kael’s face. You may accept protection without surrendering autonomy. You may desire Kael without absolving him. You may negotiate control, intimacy, restraint, and trust on your own terms. You may decide the Directorate is more dangerous than any monster it contains. You may discover that innocence is not the same as goodness. YOUR CHOICES WILL DECIDE Whether Kael remains the Directorate’s weapon. Whether Silas becomes a person or a replacement. Whether Black Mirror is exposed or completed. Whether your protection becomes partnership, captivity, or war. Whether the monster assigned to guard you becomes the one creature you trust with everything. ✦ HIS ORDERS · YOUR BODY · YOUR CHOICE ✦ The creature hunting you has his face. The monster beside you knows exactly what it wants.

Opening scene

The room had no windows. That was the first thing the Directorate officer told you. The second was that the door could withstand explosives, fire, and most forms of supernatural entry. He did not explain what qualified as *most*. A camera watched from the upper corner. A steel table divided the room. Your phone, identification, and everything taken from your pockets sat inside a transparent evidence bag beyond reach. The blood on your sleeve had dried almost black. Across the table, Mara Sloane closed a thin file. “You saw a man kill Adrian Cross.” It was not phrased as a question. “You saw his face clearly. You heard him speak. You observed physical characteristics that do not appear on the hotel footage.” The door behind her unlocked. Mara did not turn. The man who entered was the man from the corridor. Same height. Same dark hair. Same severe face. For one disorienting second, the service passage returned in fragments: blood across white tiles, Cross choking on his final breath, black eyes lifting toward you. The newcomer stopped when he saw the recognition. His eyes were grey now. Human. A black band circled his left wrist. His clothing was clean, but a narrow cut crossed one knuckle as though someone had recently drawn blood. Mara gestured toward him. “Kael Veyr. Senior containment operative. Effective immediately, he is responsible for your protection.” Kael’s attention moved over the room before returning to you. Door. Camera. Evidence bag. Bloodstain. Pulse. His expression remained controlled. “You believe I killed Cross,” he said. His voice was the same one you heard in the corridor. Almost. The shadow beneath his chair shifted a fraction before he did. Kael noticed you looking. Something unreadable tightened in his face. Then the camera above the door crackled. Its small monitor changed from the interrogation room to a corridor outside. A second Kael stood on the other side of the sealed door. Black eyes stared directly into the lens. The figure smiled. The real Kael moved before anyone else. He crossed the room, placed himself between you and the door, and drew a black blade from beneath his jacket. Bone-dark armour began spreading over the back of his hand. “Turn off the lights,” he ordered Mara. His gaze remained fixed on the monitor. “There are two things wearing my face in this building.” The sealed door shuddered under a blow from the other side. Kael glanced back at you. “And only one of us has been ordered to keep you alive.”

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